is it a question of tamerlan learning everything from the internet and that being combustible with his own sense of disaffection and anger and perceived rootlessness and perceived injury, whatever it was. or, in fact, did someone seize upon it and, as it were in the old cold war language turn him and run him. we do not know that yet. >> rose: david remnick, thank you. >> thank you. >> rose: david remnick reporting in the "new yorker" magazine. back in a moment. stay with us. >> rose: rebecca miller is here, she has been an actress, a painter, a sculptor, director and short story writer. she's also a novelist and her new book is called "jacob's folly." it tells a story of an 18th century parisian jewish regent who has been reincarnated as a house fly in new york. the "new york times" callings it "delightful, bawdy, detailed and complicated." i'm pleased to have rebecca miller here. >> thank you. >> rose: let's go right to the book. here is jacob he's a peddler in paris in the 1th century and he's reincarnated as a fly. where did this idea come from? >> well, you know, the book is constr